Poll - Is Switch a 9th gen console?

[JRPGfan]

Pemalite said:

JRPGfan said:

Whats defineing the 9th gen then?

SSDs? Hardware Raytraceing? 16GB of memory pool? speed of the ram/cpu?

Is it the 3D audio  (3D binaural sound is amasing btw)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA

Ray Tracing and SSD's is the technological definer for next-gen.

As for the Audio... We had 3D positional audio years ago... Aureal A3D comes to mind.
Then the industry went backwards for a few decades.

How many games used it on consoles?

A quick google search of "Aureal A3D games", and all I see pop up is a old video of half-life on a pc, with a fanmade mod, that uses it.
It sounds horrible.... ei. badly used.

I think this new level of audio (if game devs use it) should make for a very noticeable differnt between this gen, and older ones (atleast in audio quality).

Last edited by JRPGfan - on 02 August 2020